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...must question then whether the new limit will really slow the push by randomization supporters, or is this only an initial step in the gradual erosion of student choice...
...bring in dollar-priced American-made parts for final assembly. "Mexican products will be more competitive on the global market, and there will be more jobs created in Mexico than otherwise would have been the case," says Robert Hormats, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs International. And the prospect of gradual improvement in the Mexican economy leads most analysts to discount the possibility that the peso's swoon will mean a sizable new surge of illegal immigrants pouring into...
Boston, Brookline and Cambridge--the three communities in Massachusetts with rent-control laws--have filed home-rule petitions asking Beacon Hill to allow a gradual phase-out of the program...
...Auchincloss wrote about social decay, about the gradual bleeding of moral force and money from the old Protestant families of Manhattan. His Collected Stories (Houghton Mifflin; 465 pages; $24.95) were written from 1949 to the . present, and their themes are remarkably consistent. Again and again, Auchincloss describes pale people who turn their faces, shuddering, from the modern world. His male protagonists are weak and bloodless, his women lumpy and conflicted. As a class, they have even lost their ability to breed. "A virgin to both sexes" is a confessional phrase used more than once, wryly but without regret...
...last month's election, state voters approved Question 9, the ballot initiative to repeal rent control effective January 1. But Cambridge, Boston and Brookline--the three communities with rent control--have petitioned Beacon Hill to allow a gradual phasing out of the program...